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7 Uses for BuckheadFMV's 2025 Benchmark Report on Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Prices
January 2025 BuckheadFMV has released its updated resource for healthcare and valuation professionals, the BFMV Benchmark Report for...
Dec 29, 2024
CMS’s 2025 Final Rule Reduces Conversion Factor by 2.83%
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently issued the Final Rule announcing the 2025 policy changes for Medicare,...
Dec 27, 2024
Guidance on Setting A Reasonable Rate for After-Hours Practice Call Compensation
The BFMV Cost of Physician Staffing Services is a publication released by BFMV in the spring of each year. The study analyzes government...
Dec 24, 2024
7 Key Takeaways from the 2024 BFMV Physician Leaders Compensation Report
BFMV recently released the 2024 Physician Leaders Compensation Report . Our primary interest in undertaking this study was tracking...
Nov 26, 2024
Looking Back on 2024: Two Litigation Events that Could Significantly Impact Healthcare’s Future
Major events of 2024 delivered heavy helpings of dispute, debate, and contention. Alongside the clashes in politics and culture,...
Nov 19, 2024
Two Potential Insights into the Trump Administration’s Impact on the Healthcare Industry
The Trump administration's actions relative to two pending antitrust enforcement actions will provide early insight into the new...
Nov 13, 2024
CMO Compensation in Nonprofit Hospitals
As part of the 2024 BFMV Physician Leaders Compensation Report , BFMV analyzed Form 990 [1] data filed by non-profit hospitals and...
Oct 31, 2024
FTC Withdrawal of Antitrust Safety Zone May Impact Healthcare Valuation
In July 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) withdrew a 1996 policy statement: Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in...
Oct 18, 2024
Hospital Self-Disclosure Led to $14 Million Settlement
In September 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Siouxland Surgery Center LLP, doing business as Dunes Surgical...
Oct 7, 2024
Non-Compete Agreements Remain a Valuable Business Asset
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced a new rule abolishing non-compete agreements for almost all workers in...
Sep 23, 2024
South Carolina CON Repeal Law – Impact on ASC Value Multiples
On May 16, 2023, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed SB 164 into law. SB 164 removes the CON requirements for most health...
Sep 10, 2024
The Impact of Clinical Specialty on Physician Leader Pay
In June 2024, BFMV issued the latest edition of its Physician Leaders Compensation Report . The report is based on Form 990 data filed by...
Sep 3, 2024
5 Insights from BFMV’s 2024 Physician Call Coverage Burden & Compensation Survey
Every year, BFMV conducts a national direct-to-physician call coverage survey. This project offers valuable insights that inform our fair...
Aug 28, 2024
Qui Tam Complaint Raises the Question: Are Multiples of the Median a Test of FMV?
The United States recently joined a whistleblower complaint against Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Erlanger Health System (“Erlanger”),...
Aug 23, 2024
Physician Shortage Trend: Urology
In our work, physician shortages within a given specialty can impact the fair market value and commercial reasonableness of the...